Best Value Survival Games
The Survival games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.
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By price
Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
- 1Dead by Daylight$0.02/1hr363h78.36%78.25%
- 2Crosshair X$0.03/1hr309h91.89%93.36%
- 3Myth of Empires$0.03/1hr224h73.97%67.60%
- 4SCUM$0.03/1hr526h74.83%74.01%
- 5Fallout 4$0.04/1hr137h81.34%81.19%
- 6Outward Definitive Edition$0.04/1hr52h75.70%72.68%
- 7Fallout: New Vegas$0.04/1hr57h95.68%95.97%
- 8Fallout 76$0.05/1hr155h72.80%71.92%
- 9Deep Rock Galactic$0.07/1hr135h96.87%97.10%
- 10Mad Max$0.07/1hr43h91.64%92.35%
- 11Atomicrops$0.07/1hr41h87.85%92.05%
- 12Subsistence$0.08/1hr104h77.22%72.12%
- 13My Time at Portia$0.08/1hr72h90.31%91.46%
- 14Darkwood$0.09/1hr22h92.11%94.89%
- 15Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 16Terraria$0.09/1hr106h97.31%97.37%
- 17RimWorld$0.10/1hr292h97.47%97.85%
- 18Don't Starve Together$0.10/1hr150h94.77%94.89%
- 19Kenshi$0.10/1hr118h94.77%95.59%
- 20Mr. Prepper$0.10/1hr27h83.21%80.01%
- 21Town of Salem$0.10/1hr48h87.28%87.86%
- 22Brotato$0.11/1hr47h95.09%95.92%
- 23Against the Storm$0.11/1hr82h92.49%94.44%
- 24Among Us$0.11/1hr27h91.98%92.03%
- 25Space Haven$0.11/1hr89h85.49%85.76%
- 26Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic$0.12/1hr86h89.58%91.18%
- 27Mortal Online 2$0.13/1hr315h70.42%59.82%
- 28Risk of Rain 2$0.13/1hr65h93.69%93.85%
- 29SKYHILL$0.13/1hr8h82.66%78.30%
- 30God Of Weapons$0.13/1hr46h84.78%84.02%
- 31Picayune Dreams$0.13/1hr19h89.94%98.88%
- 32Oxygen Not Included$0.14/1hr184h95.97%96.72%
- 33Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun$0.14/1hr29h93.79%96.03%
- 34Space Engineers$0.14/1hr145h88.56%88.81%
- 35Rust$0.14/1hr287h86.68%86.67%
- 36Beasts of Bermuda$0.15/1hr137h77.13%68.88%
- 37Eco$0.15/1hr204h82.55%80.69%
- 38Green Hell$0.15/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 39Valheim$0.15/1hr200h93.39%93.49%
- 40Project Zomboid$0.16/1hr161h93.63%93.75%
- 41Dungeon Defenders$0.16/1hr96h90.57%93.09%
- 42DayZ$0.16/1hr320h78.13%77.92%
- 43Mindustry$0.16/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 44Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 45Alan Wake$0.17/1hr13h89.21%89.88%
- 46Factorio$0.17/1hr203h97.14%97.52%
- 47Stoneshard$0.17/1hr101h76.97%74.67%
- 48ARK: Survival Evolved$0.18/1hr85h83.40%83.34%
- 49Planetbase$0.18/1hr41h82.42%79.78%
- 50Core Keeper$0.18/1hr65h91.93%92.94%
- 51Endzone - A World Apart$0.19/1hr11h80.93%76.70%
- 52Palworld$0.19/1hr111h94.47%94.60%
- 53Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 54Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.19/1hr103h79.91%78.37%
- 55The Survivalists$0.20/1hr25h80.20%76.18%
- 567 Days to Die$0.20/1hr224h86.97%86.94%
- 57Left 4 Dead 2$0.20/1hr50h97.43%97.52%
- 58Smalland: Survive the Wilds$0.20/1hr35h83.35%81.61%
- 59ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.20/1hr74h84.52%84.77%
- 60Risk of Rain (2013)$0.21/1hr10h91.08%93.05%
- 61Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.21/1hr24h93.36%94.19%
- 62The Escapists$0.21/1hr13h88.29%90.21%
- 63Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense$0.21/1hr120h85.84%86.28%
- 64Empires of the Undergrowth$0.21/1hr36h91.19%94.36%
- 65Blood and Bacon$0.21/1hr5h93.11%95.28%
- 66Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.21/1hr66h90.29%94.25%
- 67Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 68Bloons TD 6$0.22/1hr65h96.96%97.18%
- 69Tainted Grail: Conquest$0.22/1hr23h87.64%89.86%
- 70Ostranauts$0.22/1hr91h82.51%77.13%
- 71Total War: ATTILA$0.22/1hr89h83.00%82.42%
- 72Scrap Mechanic$0.23/1hr129h91.31%91.80%
- 73ANEURISM IV$0.23/1hr44h80.74%75.15%
- 74Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 75Settlement Survival$0.23/1hr22h85.12%85.04%
- 76Bendy and the Dark Revival$0.23/1hr9h88.98%91.87%
- 77Amazing Cultivation Simulator$0.23/1hr107h85.49%85.62%
- 78Stronghold Crusader 2$0.24/1hr16h76.98%72.45%
- 79Per Aspera$0.24/1hr31h81.79%75.91%
- 80ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN$0.25/1hr163h81.89%81.72%
- 81The Long Dark$0.25/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 82Resident Evil 6$0.25/1hr20h78.13%77.15%
- 83Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.25/1hr100h86.78%94.97%
- 84Timberborn$0.25/1hr98h93.89%95.97%
- 85Starbound$0.25/1hr59h89.78%89.92%
- 86From the Depths$0.25/1hr98h87.46%89.23%
- 87Niche - a genetics survival game$0.26/1hr14h84.91%86.14%
- 88Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.26/1hr155h79.53%79.05%
- 89The Binding of Isaac$0.26/1hr19h93.32%94.61%
- 90HUMANKIND$0.27/1hr47h73.27%69.14%
- 91The Planet Crafter$0.27/1hr54h94.74%96.03%
- 92Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 93HumanitZ$0.27/1hr45h78.37%74.26%
- 94Yet Another Zombie Survivors$0.27/1hr34h89.06%91.55%
- 95Captain of Industry$0.27/1hr92h87.94%90.31%
- 96Medieval Dynasty$0.28/1hr63h89.51%90.33%
- 97Satisfactory$0.28/1hr145h96.94%97.26%
- 98Chernobylite Complete Edition$0.28/1hr22h83.24%81.99%
- 99The Isle$0.28/1hr71h80.56%80.18%
- 100Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.28/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.